We might have an explanation for Princess Charlene’s surprisingly “together” behavior at last weekend’s Red Cross ball in Monte Carlo. If you remember, Charlene actually looked halfway decent, and she didn’t look like she had spent the last 72 hours locked in some bathroom, sobbing her eyes out. Of course, she still looked kind of drugged out, in my opinion, but she was lucid enough to dance with Prince Albert and not vomit, so… SUCCESS! Anyway, The Mail’s sources claim that Charlene’s functioning appearance last weekend was the result of her laying down the law on Albert: no more new baby-mamas and no more old baby-mamas up in Charlene’s grill. No more screwing around. No more running off to the Whore Yacht (I think that’s a thing).

Their marriage famously began under a cloud when Princess Charlene fled Monaco two days before the wedding after learning of her husband’s lovechild. But after finally putting on a show of unity last week, Prince Albert has been given pretty clear demands from his wife if their new love is to last.

Jealous Princess Charlene, 33, has banned her playboy husband from coming into contact with his legion of ex-lovers. Under his new strict instructions, the famously wayward 53-year-old will not be allowed to contact Nicole Coste, the Togo air hostess who fathered Albert’s third lovechild during his engagement to Charlene.

After being ‘talked down’ by palace officials, the couple married in July before being hit by further claims they spent a night in separate hotels on their honeymoon. But the Princess is now reported to be stamping her authority on her new husband, who already has two illegitmate children.

Paris Match magazine revealed this week that the former South African Olympic swimmer had Ms Coste, struck off the guest list to Monaco’s lavish Red Cross ball. Ms Coste is the mother of Albert’s six-year-old love-child Alexandre. He has another daughter Jazmin, 19, born after a brief affair with American estate agent Tamara Rotola. In both cases, DNA tests were needed before Albert admitted he was the father, and agreed to pay for their upbringings.

A source close to the Monaco Royal palace told Paris Match: ‘Charlene had to tolerate the presence of Ms Coste during last year’s Red Cross ball when they were engaged. But now they are married, she has put her foot down and had Ms Coste struck off the guest list. She does not want to give her the status of a privileged guest at an official function, and does not want Albert to consort socially with any of his previous lovers.’

Rumours of a marriage rift – which the couple have strongly denied – erupted after reports that Charlene had bolted for Nice airport two days before their wedding. French magazine L’Express said she had discovered Albert had had a third lovechild during their relationship. It also reported that he had undergone a DNA before jetting off on honeymoon to Durban.

Charlene spoke earlier this year about her ‘loneliness’ in Monaco, and added: ‘I only have two people I consider friends here.’

Monaco insiders told the French media last month that a ‘deal’ had been brokered between the Prince and his reluctant bride after she fled to ensure she provides her new husband with a legitimate heir. Under Monaco’s constitution neither of Albert’s children can take the throne because they were born out of wedlock.

One source added: ‘Charlene will provide an heir, then if things don’t go well, she will receive a generous divorce settlement once she’s served a decent amount of time.’

Before he met Charlene four years ago, Albert dated dozens of the world’s most famous and beautiful women, including Angie Everhart, Brooke Shields, and supermodel Claudia Schiffer. He also battled persistent rumors he was gay. Monaco government spokesman said that once he met Charlene, Albert knew he had finally found the woman he wanted to provide an heir.

The spokesman told France’s high society Point de Vue magazine last year: ‘Charlene has beauty and style, and we are all praying that she will ensure the royal succession in our principality. Albert has never settled down in the past, but knows that the time is now right to produce the next ruler of Monaco.’

1. I can’t believe Albert has the gall to invite his baby-mama around his fiancé/wife. WTF?

2. Don’t call Charlene “jealous”. It’s not “jealousy”. It’s “being devastated to learn that the man you married is a womanizing son of bitch, and you were forced to marry him because his henchmen stole your passport.”

3. I’d be willing to bet that this most recent paternity debacle, the one that came up right before the wedding, did turn out to be Prince Albert’s kid. I think he’s paying a lot of money to keep the whole thing quiet.

4. Poor Charlene.

5. Seriously, what is the problem with Andrea taking the throne? He seems like a nice enough young man, and getting Albert a legit heir is proving to be more trouble than it’s worth.

Wow, no more baby-mommas or whore-sails!!! This is what happens when one becomes a princess. Demands demands and more demands. She’s really getting full of herself to expect Albert to give up all his hobbies just for her.

In that nose to nose profile pic she looks like hell as she presses her shank into his scrotum with the bubble- thought, “Give back my passport you dirty litttle strange chaser”…of course if she keeps up these unreasonable demands, little Albert is going to give it to her (Not to be confused with “tiny Albert and by “it” I mean the passport).

1) She’s lived in Monaco for 6 years. She should have known all about Albert and she should have had a taste of what her gilded cage life would be like. Has home girl never heard of Google?

2) He’ll cheat again, he’s Albert. You’ll pop out a few kids and then he’ll go back to his kinky sex life. Not to mention Albert obviously is not attracted to white women. This blonde haired blue eyed wife is for show. He needed to continue the charade. European royalty cannot marry other races.

3) What kind of a bitch bars a man from seeing his children? Petty. They have a right to know their father and this evil stepmother act is like something out of a Disney film.

Whatever miserable life she has is a making all her own. She had 6 years to flee, 6 years to learn about the man she was marrying and 6 years to get realize she would have a lonely vapid existence, but she wanted a crown and she wanted money and now oh well. You get what you get.

The constitution was changed so that Caroline’s kids can take the throne if Albert dies without legitimate heirs, so I don’t think that (succession) is really that big of a concern anymore.

As far as whether it’s “fair” to prohibit Albert’s illegitimate kids from taking the throne, that’s just the way their laws are set up. After all, if we’re going to talk about “fairness,” then Albert (and his kids — legitimate or not) would not be first in line for the throne anyway — that SHOULD have gone to Caroline and her kids. But again, that’s the way the laws were set up. It’s their country.

How long were they engaged? That boy is coming up on ten years of age. So, did Miss Adelaide spend the entirety of her twenties engaged to someone 20 years her senior? Guys and Dolls is one of my least favourite musicals of all time: it’s garbage.

I haven’t been following his story because the saga of princess insane-whatever isn’t thrilling to me, and I can’t be sure if the Grimaldi family is capable of doing anything that isn’t expensive whoring while not inheriting their mother’s genes, but a penchant displayed by parents at some point or another to screw really inappropriately.

I’m not sure what these demands are, is she saying ‘don’t bring no past conquests up in here’, (because that awkward and could turn into territorials madness between two people who have stakes which at some point go beyond their rights) or ‘don’t let me find out that you’ve had any contact whatsoever with the person to whom your child is connected? No more sex boats is one thing she’s owed by him, but those are still his kids and if he makes genuine efforts to be with them, she’ll have two options: work it out or run away again. If they were engaged for as long as the dubious source says, one has to wonder why she didn’t put her Cabbage Patch Kid down, take up with someone trustworthy and leave him to cavort with people who are sane?

2. Don’t call Charlene “jealous”. It’s not “jealousy”. It’s “being devastated to learn that the man you married is a womanizing son of bitch, and you were forced to marry him because his henchmen stole your passport.”

Louisa – I think I read gay rumors on him, but mostly he’s known for womanizing. There’s also creepy stories about some sex dungeon, and violent porn (like getting off on beating women). At this point it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s just a kinky freak, into some very strange fetishes, and will screw anything that walks upright. He’s so skeevy.

wait…these are BABY mommas? Albert is the birth-dad of various kids? If so he definitely needs to take some responsibility and some part in the lives of these children. He is a public figure, cannot remain private, so he must own up to his offspring. To do otherwise is despicable.

I’m such a fan of this website. What I like most is that the writers, and the bloggers, like myself, are intrigued and amused by celebs, and the crazy things they do, whether it is what they do to themselves (bad plastic surgery), tasteless attire, their crazy quotes/interviews, drama (Lilo..perfect example), but everyone from the writers to the bloggers have an excellent sense of humor w/their tongue-in-cheek remarks…and, in addition, it seems the writers and bloggers are stark realists.

However, I don’t really agree w/the perspective of this particular subject, Princess Charlene and that bloated, twisted joke of an alleged monarch, Albert.

Yes, I do empathize (as much as an everyday, “regular commoner” can) Princess Charlene’s plight. I watched the video provided of their nuptials…and it was TRAGIC. The look on Charlene’s face, the tears…hell, I almost cried for her, as well. I do tend to believe that Albert’s henchmen did, in fact, take Charlene’s passport, also.

However, being the realist I am, I cannot avoid the facts. Upon reflection, even I KNEW what a douche Albert was WAY BEFORE he even got engaged. I was also aware of the gay rumors that floated around. For ‘poor Charlene’ to think, be aware of what she was getting into, even while DATING Albert…I mean, come on. She had to have known about (at least SOME) his previous dalliances and TWO of his children borne out of wedlock. Albert has tons of money, lots of time on his hands; women throw themselves at him solely for the mere fact that he’s mega-rich and royalty.

That being said, maybe Charlene was/is in love w/Albert. Charlene had to be aware of these things. I’m certain Charlene thought LONG AND HARD prior to becoming engaged. Charlene, like Waity, had her eye on “the prize.” YES, I do feel for her, but only so much, as she is a privileged person.

Yes, she’s been extremely embarrassed by all of his antics, but she’s being handsomely compensated. She wants for nothing (except maybe having a “real, loving relationship w/a soulmate”)…otherwise, my thoughts are that she is exactly where she wants to be.

Is there a picture of her anywhere where she doesn’t look like she’s on heavy duty tranquilizers??? I don’t feel bad for her..she knew the kind of man he was when she got with him…no telling how many more little ‘princes and princesses’ are out there

i dont feel sorry for charlene. she willingly got herself into this situation. she knew what kind of guy albert is. i dunno why she thought he would change just for her. maybe miss swimming champ has a massive ego.

prognostication: once charlene comes up with a son, charlene has no more bargaining chip, so albert will be scott-free to do whatever he wants to again. so this truce is temporary. enjoy it while u can, charlene, u sucker.

Well, I do feel sorry for her. Don’t you think he might have given her the old “I’ll give him/her/them up for you, baby!” line? I do. There’s no way to explain her behaviour otherwise. Why would she want all that negative attention placed on her WEDDING if she’d bought into the whole thing?

Nope, I think he told her he’d quit and she found out he hadn’t. Oldest story in the book.

And Albert pays for the kids upbringing, and doesn’t see them, and Charlene had NOTHING to do with that. It’s all about What One Does and, more to the point, What One Does Not Do.

Nah, I think she made her deal and then realized that the other party had omitted a few salient facts.

@ Wom: Andrea is Andrea Casiraghi, Princess Caroline’s eldest son, who’ll inherit the throne if Albert can’t produce a kid with his wife.
This whole thing is baffling to me, and the only explanation I can come up with is ego: Albert is such an egotistical bastard that the throne MUST go to his own kid, rather than his nephew. The weirdest thing is that Albert would have probably been much happier himself if he’d just remained a bachelor prince, free to screw whatever came his way. I so wish this thing falls apart and Andrea becomes the next Prince of Monaco.

Im Russian-Brazilian-American. Please dont get offended. He reminds me of my neighbor. He is white, who loves women of color but married a white one for his job and lifestyle only. I think he only married Charlene to produce a legitimate heir to the throne. His “type” is colored women. In most societies still, it will lower a white man if he marries a girl of color (but not Asian girls cus they pass for white). Charlene has already figured it out he likes colored girls. Most of my male neighbors married trophy wives but cheat with colored women or women from backgrounds that arent acceptible in middle affluent suburbia. My 3 neighbor’s side girls are Cambodian, Guatemalan and Nigerian and their wives are Jennifer Garner, January Jones and Julianne Moore. At their jobs, all the women and families are the same too. White, Jewish or Asian backgrounds ONLY. Albert had to marry Charlene.

I think Jacqueline’s correct too. After a certain tax bracket, it’s not about what’s responsible, but what’s acceptable. As soon as succession enters into the picture, the eugenicists crawl out of their holes and start carping about traditions and representation. Then when you’ve got trash mags like Psychology Today barfing up those tired stories about how black women are considered the least attractive female designation and how that’s a sentiment echoed by all men of every race…well, we’re all being groomed to be massive assholes, with a charming and pretty Stepford at home to show off at cocktail parties but makes love like a plank of wood, and you also keep your feisty jungle bunny mistress on side and a million Hallmark movies are born.

I can only have so much sympathy for her. You were the only person in the world who didn’t know what he was? Goodness, he probably fathered her, too. Probably thinks Grace and Ranier was fairy tale marriage that didn’t affect how their kids saw the institution. I don’t know, I guess the main lesson for ladies is, marry someone better. Money didn’t make them beautiful, why should it make them, The Family Tabloid uniformly kind?

Oh! Caroline! You used to be one of Europe’s most beautiful women! WTF! And believe it or not, Stephanie was a VERY strikingly attractive (though not beautiful in the classic sense) young woman…her peak was 1992, before the affects of the drugs, sun and booze took their toll.

I just can’t get over Steph’s weathered, leathered face…DAMN!

I too find this whole marriage thing bizarre…Fat Albert did NOT have to marry in order for Monaco to survive as an independent principality…I just don’t get it.

Oh, and as for Andrea…MAJOR drug addict. Major. It’s well known ion Europe.

“Person of colour” is a circumlocution for “coloured person.” They both describe the same thing. Furthermore, we all have a colour, right? Hence, “person of colour” may as well mean “person.” “Nonwhite” works well to describe people who are of nonwhite colouring.

If Charlene is going to be in that messed up life with Albert, she better start putting down some rules and definitely no more baby mama coffee runs for Albert! I’m guessing from the tone of the article the DNA test has now confirmed a third “illegitimate” child of Albert, and this one recently born which means Albert was dickering around on Charlene!

Why do Caroline and Stephanie look constipated in that group photo? And could they be any more orange? Geez, their mum Grace was a stunning woman I can’t believe those three are carriers of her genes, then again look who Grace married, not exactly a Cary Grant, eh…

I spent a little time around the people who populate/frequent Monaco (ah, my misspent youth) and I absolutely heard that Albert was gay. I thought the first love child was an attempt to “prove” he isn’t, cleverly orchestrated by the palace. But 2 (or 3) kids later, who the hell knows?

I don’t feel sorry for Charlene, but I hope that whatever deal she made ends up being worth it.

@Nymeria-Circumlocution…I’m putting that in my Sunday Words Archive. Great word.

Black is the absence of color while white includes all colors of the spectrum…so non-white is to refer to the absence of at least one color….unless we’re really not talking about the refractive make-up of light, then…never mind.

Colored I meant all colors. Latina, red dots, arab etc. Asians in America are now more affluent than whites! So they are accepted in most affluent suburbs. I meant dont get offended by the nature of white is standard and colored women are not acceptible. Women of color lose out the best men in society because of their background and color. White/asian women win affluence, but get cheated on. Im Brazilian and Russian, white enough for Wellesley, MA.

Sounds to me like she has the main problem with Nicole, the black woman he fathered a child with. I’m sorry, but she knew she was getting chopped down by a womanizing man-whore way before she agreed to marry him, so now isn’t the time to pretend like she’s the cure for his indiscretions! He ALREADY has heirs, just not any “worthy” to wear the crown. If she thinks for one second that he’s going to suddenly stop his whoring, she’d better stock up on the meds, because she’s going to need them!

Jacqueliene, what you mean? I don’t see how dark women “loose best men in society” to light skin women. I think they look bether, I alway try to make my pale skin get some colour. It is not about colour, who gets with who. So Ne pravda:-)

Ladies, if I may, Jacqueline (#34) raises a very apt point. Many, MANY white guys I know (both single and married) are absolutely attracted to women of colour and “exotic” backgrounds, but play it “safe” on the surface re choice of girlfriends and wives, which, to me is utterly ridiculous and archaic.

I know of at least two married guys with kids who have women of (beautiful) colour as mistresses…to coin a cheesy term.

And let me get this straight…Fat Albert had Nicole Coste, Togo Bongo Boongo Lawd Have Mercy Mama, at the Red Cross Ball last year? This guy seriously has serious effed up issues.

So wait there’s a third kid too? Does Albert have any contact with his children? This is what I want to know. I can understand Charlene not wanting the baby mommas around but hopefully she would encourage Albert to have a relationship with his children (not just hers if she has any with him in the future). As far as I know, Albert has never had contact with his American daughter and probably never sees his son with the flight attendant.

The assumption that European royals must marry a certain race is wrong. A prominent prince from Lichtenstein (spelling?) or Luxemburg married a black dress designer from New York about 10 years ago.

My girfriend who is black also dated Albert in New York. She said he was very nice but that his family would not accept a black wife. I (black) have dated a German aristocrat whose family was very liberal. I think it depends on the family.

Charlene should respect the fact that these children need a father and Albert should respect his vows and not revisit past romances.

Prejudice still exists and the stories about these men who will only marry an acceptable white wife is sad. At the end of the day, one should marry the person that they love.

Hi there! This is the first time I ever place a comment on any gossip site. I have been following and enjoying the threads so much, I couldn’t resist

About Albert, I think there must be so much more to his disgustingness we don’t know about. My theory is that Charlene found out about something really pervert and horrible he did, and that’s when she tried to run. She must have known about gay roumors, whore yachts and illegitimate children, but there might be things that are even more repugnant and haven’t surfaced yet in the press.
I don’t really feel sorry for her though, because what little we already know proves that he is a pig, and couldn’t pay me enough to bear his child.

both stephanie and caroline were gorgeous in their youth; good grief – that’s some hard living by their looks. and he just gives off a very creepy vibe. imagine the millions they’ve paid out to keepers of their secrets.

I’m not sure what some are talking about but Princess Charlene looks happy and looked amazing on her wedding day, I believe many are just full of green envy and just hating. Smart lady I say ,Good for her, she’s doing what Princess Diana should have done to Camilla immediately after marrying Pr.Charles.

I like Princess Charlene,better than Duchess Kate because when Pr.Willie cheats in about five years Kate will just look the other way.

Charlene is beautiful,she’s really coming into her own,she and Pr.Albert look happy together. I don’t believe anyone held her anywhere and forced anything, Charlene has known Pr.Albert for ten years and was very happy when he proposed. She knows what’s up, she’s a smart lady and if it makes some of you feel better to think she’s unhappy, than so be it, but she looks happy in evey photo I’ve seen on this site. I think a lot of people are jealous. HSH Princess Charlene is there to stay. I’ll bet these two last longer than Prince William and his Duchess.

@ Jacqueline, I have to disgree with you. I’m black and I’m engaged to a very wealthy man. I live in a very wealthy surburb in Fairfield county in Connecticut. A lot of my black friends are also married to men and either live in my town or surrounding surburbs. And they are in very happy marriages with well settled children. Also no one uses the word “colored” anymore.

“Beautiful” would be the last work I can think when I look at this woman.
She looks as if there is a little bit of feces on the top or her nose (just like Kobe Bryant looks). It is that facial expression that people (we all) make when we smell a fowell smell but she has it almost all the time (just like Kobe)

“Women of color lose out the best men in society because of their background and color”

This is utter drivel. The “best men in society” have the influence, character, and courage to marry and/or date whomever they choose. It’s the wanna-bes, the strivers and the weak losers who have to select their mates based on what mummy/daddy/society have to say about it. I don’t think any woman of any color would find that attractive.

I Think Kate/Catherine is more beautiful than Charlene, for as far as i know Catherine hasn’t had plastic surgery, Charlene on the other hand.Well.It been reported she had (rumour to be paid for by Albert himself).

Charlene didn’t look happy on her wedding day; look at her eyes, utter sadness. Every msg board and chart and gossip blog has all reported this.

I believe Catherine & William will last longer as they look genuine happy, smiling, embracing and enjoy each other company in general.
Did you not watch Catherine & William wedding day?

@34 – spot on! Many white men “lurve lurve lurve” a bit of colour but “have” to marry the white woman for career, social status blah blah blah. I would always remember a Law & Order episode where this New York rich society man was basically marrying someone like Princess Charlene, but every free chance he had, he was hot tailing it down to Harlem to hook up with this beautiful black lady. It’s not Albert’s fault, it is society’s fault that they would not accept his marriage to Nicole Coste, because face it, he really really has electric chemistry with that baby mama! Princess Charlene looks the part, but her biscuit obviously cannot keep him interested enough. Nicole got game!

@74- Anna – I agree with you. Duchess Waity and Prince Baldy will always be together. Duchess Waity is not going anywhere and Prince Baldy has a duty to his country to not rock the monarchy further. That Duchess waited around for nine years for that ring – nothing is going to get her to leave!

Any woman who marries a man who has an obvious erotic preference for another type of woman, is either a fool, or prepared to accept him cheating on her because something else motivates her acceptance (money? prestige? the frequent wearing of tiaras?) It’s certainly not his familial “good looks” genetics. The only people I feel sorry for in this scenarios are the women of colour who got used, and the children that resulted. How do you say “condom” in “Monocan” (and yes, I do know they speak French!)?

No, Anna, it means you took the time (however long you both needed) to come to that decision. I wish you happiness!

I think Charlene knew what he was like (as in “was,” past tense) and thought he’d given up that kind of thing when they got engaged.

Unfortunately, he didn’t. Obviously, since he fathered a second child with the stewardess (I REFUSE to use the term “air hostess” – that’s just stupid), which is now his third (KNOWN) out-of-wedlock kiddo.

I wouldnt put it past them, but I think Charlene is possessed by some voodoo love spell. She looks terribly sad but she seems tied up in place. I think he/the establishment did the witchcraft works until she produces a real heir and then she is free to go. Later on even she will wonder how/why she stayed. I think she is possessed. How sad she looked at her wedding. He definetly wanted that black woman and ya he knocked her up again. Poor Charlene.

Jacqueline is totally right. A lot of families wont accept black or colored in their families. Their grandchildren will be treated like second class and if they can get away with it, inherit less or get poorer gifts. I have witnessed this even with biacial children by their very parents! Doting more on the light skinned ones…aunts uncles etc.

Sandy, I think you and Jacqueline have a point, one that’s not quite understood by those who don’t have first-hand experience. There are generations upon generations of “evidence” as it were, to attest to these archaic close-minded ideals.

How is banning him from being a active father to his children gonna solve anything, and won’t these abandoned kids eventually blame and hate you,.. you foolish, fame seeking, terminally forsaken and deeply involved with his crimes and misdeeds by marriage.. woman?

I have a friend whose uncle slept with Albert. Al be a womanizer but he absolutely is a man-izer, too. He married Charlene because she has broad, athletic shoulders that allow him to pretend that he’s with a guy. Why she married him? Money, I guess.

Monaco government spokesman said that once he met Charlene, Albert knew he had finally found the woman he wanted to provide an heir.

There’s your trouble, right there. Notice it does not say “The woman he wanted to marry” or “The woman he loved” or “The woman who he knew would be perfect as the next Serene Highness of Monaco”. Nope. It says “The woman he wanted to provide an heir”. That’s it. She was hired for babymaking. It’s like The Handmaid’s Tale there in Monaco, for God’s sake. Caroline has two sons and I think Stephanie has two as well, along with daughters. Why can’t one of their children inherit the throne? Oh, that’s right: because they were born to girls, not to Albert. Which, hello, isn’t his heir going to be born to a girl? As are we all?

That place is messed up, and Albert is a goon. And Charlene needs to lay off the botox, for real.

Look up the photos with Albert, Nicole and child together. That’s true Love. You can tell he loves his son. You can tell he loves the mother of his son. And I’m willing to bet this 3rd child is with Nicole. That visit Nicole made to the palace to speak with Charlene was to let her know, She/Nicole was not leaving Albert life and Albert was not leaving Nicoles life and yes “we do have another child together, deal with it”.